The V8 Sleuth Podcast
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Updated 2 days agoV8 Sleuth Aaron Noonan chats one-on-one with icons of Australian motorsport. Along with the big wins and the big moments, Noonz digs a step deeper and unearths a few forgotten tales and funny stories from their life in racing.
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V8SP: Craig Denyer
We’re talking to Craig Denyer on this week’s episode of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Father of Grant and a veteran of the Australian motorsport scene, Denyer shares plenty of incredible stories from his time in racing, beginning with his first encounter with motorsport at a Hume Weir Boxing Day meeting in the late 1960s, through to racing himself, his part in Allan Grice and Graeme Bailey’s famous win in the 1986 Bathurst 1000, through to tales from the inaugural running of Gold Coast Indy, the birth of the Bathurst 24 Hour, plus the story of V8 Utes from go to woah – including the alternative he and Bill West proposed that lost out to SuperUtes. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Adam Macrow (Part 2)
We’re talking to Adam Macrow on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the last part of our two-part chat we talk about his title-winning Fujitsu Series season in 2006, the bold promise he made to seal the drive with Howard Racing in the first place and how a good word from Alain Menu helped get his foot in the door at Triple Eight. He also opens up on why a full-time drive never came his way and what he’d have done differently in hindsight. Adam did get one solo-driver round, however, and talks about how his unlikely opportunity with Team Kiwi Racing came about. He also tackles your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus the traditional V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Unpacking the 2023 Supercars calendar
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, led by some very big and exciting news: the Sandown 500 is officially BAAACCKKK!!!!! The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage V8 Sleuth Super Sale: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/collections/v8-sleuth-super-sale Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Adam Macrow (Part 1)
We’re talking to Adam Macrow on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the first part of our two-part chat with the 1998 Australian Formula Ford Champion and 2006 Fujitsu Series victor starts with what he’s doing now and how he’s helping the next generation of drivers take their first steps into car racing, and some of the current rising stars he has worked with. He also talks about his own start in the sport, his rise through Formula Ford, his brief foray into Formula Holden, his early steps into V8 Supercars, and his rapid Datsun 120Y Improved Production car! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ In-car video of Macrow's IP Datsun 120Y in the wet at Phillip Island: https://youtu.be/eEczr-YozeM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Young gun gets Supercars graduation
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, led by some big news for one of Australian motorsport’s rising stars. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Steve Ellery (Part 2)
Part 2 with Steve Ellery on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco covers a serious amount of ground! We talk about that amazing double podium finish at Sandown and Bathurst with Luke Youlden in 2003, cover the unique situation of taking sponsor stickers off mid-race weekend in 2004 on the Gold Coast, the decision to close his family team, how he arrived at and then left Triple Eight and the full-time deal to drive a Commodore that he turned down in the aftermath. Steve also tackles the National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions and the Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Supercars champ turns team co-owner
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship led by three-time Supercars Champion Scott McLaughlin’s move into team co-ownership. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Steve Ellery (Part 1)
We’re talking to Steve Ellery on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the first part of our two-part chat with the V8 Supercars race winner and former team owner, we chat about his early years in Formula Ford and what got him started in racing and the ups and downs of trying to make it in touring car racing in the 1990s/early 2000s, ranging from his breakthrough podium finish at the Bathurst 1000 in 1996, the collapse of his relationship with Tony Longhurst the next year, his often forgotten year with Holden Young Lions, narrowly missing out on a Bathurst win in 1999, and finally achieving success as an owner-driver. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: T8 customer goes in-house for Gen3
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship in the wake of a bruising Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: It’s back! Your guide to the VALO Adelaide 500
Adelaide is set to come Alive once again with the roar of Supercars! The iconic Adelaide 500 has been resurrected for 2022 and V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale runs you through everything you need to know about the reborn event. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Official Adelaide 500 website: https://adelaide500.com.au/ Buy Adelaide 500 tickets: https://adelaide500.com.au/ticketing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 preview
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, including new liveries for Supercars’ return to the Surfers Paradise streets. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Q&A - Suspended drivers, Cenovis Falcon’s fate, iconic Whincup on-board
You’ve asked, we’re answering! Aaron Noonan and Will Dale tackle your questions in a Q&A edition of the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. Some of the topics we tackle in this episode thanks to your questions: - Who owns the footage of Jamie Whincup’s opening stint from the 2014 Bathurst 1000? - The fate of Allan Moffat’s Cenovis EB Falcon after it’s Bathurst 1000 crash in 1998 with Allan Heath - Can teams build new Mustangs and Commodores to be used in Super2 next year? - What lost permanent circuit we’d bring back - The greatest year-on-year improvement in lap times at the Bathurst 500/1000 - What we’d choose as an exhibition at the National Motor Racing Museum - And plenty more! V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Mark Larkham (Part 2)
We’re talking to Mark Larkham on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. In the second part of our two-part chat Larko tackles all your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions – and they’ve brought out some absolute gold! We also touch on which of his V8 Supercars was Larko’s favourite, what became of the AU Falcon that was involved in the infamous start-line shunt with Paul Morris at Oran Park in 2000, and Mark Winterbottom’s lucky escape at the Shanghai round in 2005 when a metal grate went through the floor of his Larkham Motor Sport Falcon. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Mark Larkham (Part 1)
We’re talking to Mark Larkham on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We’ve devoted the first part of our two-part chat to talking about Larko’s first Mitre 10 Falcon V8 Supercar. He opens up about how he came to move from Formula Brabham to touring cars, why he chose 5L V8s over Super Touring, all the bits of clever engineering that went into the team’s bold, blue Ford Falcon EF, and how elements of it were ahead of its time but the car was so troublesome overall. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Bathurst Daily: (No) Shootout Day wrap at the Bathurst 1000
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale wrap all the Saturday action at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, including the Shootout rainout, the last time pole wasn’t decided by the one-lap runoffs, a run through the grid and what we’re hoping to see happen on Sunday. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Bathurst Daily: Qualifying wrap at the Bathurst 1000
V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Friday action at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, including Shane van Gisbergen’s tangle with Macauley Jones, Triple Eight’s decision to bench Broc Feeney for Jamie Whincup, and the surprise results from a very wet qualifying session. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Bathurst Daily: Thursday wrap at the Bathurst 1000
V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap all the Thursday’s action at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, including the lack of precipitation, the abundance of speed, and the word that was on many Supercars drivers’ lips at the end of the day – and no, it wasn’t “rain”… The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Bathurst Daily: Wednesday wrap at the Bathurst 1000
We’re doing daily editions of the V8 Sleuth Podcast trackside at Mount Panorama this week during the Repco Bathurst 1000! V8 Sleuth’s Will Dale and Connor O’Brien wrap up everything from trackside on the eve of opening practice for the 2022 ‘Great Race’. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Bathurst 1992: Controversy and tragedy clouds 'The Great Race’
With 2022 marking 30 years since the running of one of the most controversial editions of ‘The Great Race’, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale look back over the events of the 1992 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: What was the greatest Holden in Bathurst 1000 history?
As ‘Australia’s Own’ car prepares for its final tilt at ‘The Great Race’, V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan and Will Dale debate which is the greatest model of Holden to have tackled the Bathurst 1000. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Gen3 passes significant milestone
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship ahead of the biggest week of the year: the lead-up to the Repco Bathurst 1000. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Win Gold Coast Supercars tickets: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/gc-comp/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Everything you need to know for the 2022 Bathurst 1000
It’s time for that special Sunday in October! V8 Sleuth's Aaron Noonan and Will Dale run through what you need to know ahead of this year's Repco Bathurst 1000 and answer your questions ahead of the 2022 edition of ‘The Great Race’. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Buy the 2022 Bathurst 1000 program: https://bit.ly/3dafe5k Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Craig Lowndes (Part 2)
We’re talking to Craig Lowndes on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We open the last part of our two-part chat talking about his emotional triumph in the 2006 Bathurst 1000, held just a few weeks after the death of his friend and mentor Peter Brock. We cover his 2010 triumph, playing football at the same club that Brock did, how he ended up with his long-standing helmet design, tackling the Australasian Safari, his desire to do the Le Mans 24 Hours, plus his future behing the wheel of a Supercar. He also faces your National Motor Racing Museum Couch Racer Questions plus the traditional V8 Sleuth Top 10 Shootout. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
V8SP: Craig Lowndes (Part 1)
We’re talking to Craig Lowndes on the V8 Sleuth Podcast powered by Repco. We open the first part of our two-part chat talking about buying his first road car, the Ford Cortina he drove while lead driver at the Holden Racing Team – and the white lie he told them about selling it. We also chat about the Formula Ford he's currently restoring, driving the ‘Black Death’, a DJR test that didn’t happen, how his drive in the 1994 Bathurst 12 Hour came about, plus the phone call from Jeff Grech that changed his life. We also chat about the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the ‘Green-Eyed Monster’, his interviews with ‘Poida’ (aka Eric Bana) and 60 Minutes, and the start of his Triple Eight era. V8 Sleuth Superstore: https://superstore.v8sleuth.com.au/ Score a free hat from Caltex: https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/caltex/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Repco Supercars Weekly: Plan to preserve Pukekohe
V8 Sleuth’s Aaron Noonan runs through the key news from the Repco Supercars Championship, starting with the action from Friday practice for the ITM Auckland SuperSprint and a plan for Pukekohe to be preserved digitally after its closure in early 2023. The Garage: https://www.repco.com.au/thegarage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices